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crightonk

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Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« on: June 17, 2010, 08:56 PM »
My 1st attempt at dyeing!

Before!


During!


And After! Happy with the results :cool:

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2010, 10:02 PM »
they look brand new...  well done :4_17_5:
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monkian

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2010, 10:53 PM »
They look sweet :daumenhoch:
So what's the best way to prep a Tuff before dyeing?

crightonk

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2010, 11:23 PM »
I used cif and a green scotchbrite pad from work, took an age but well worth it ;)

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2010, 11:27 PM »
They look like the colour they left the factory all them years ago.  Awesome work :daumenhoch:

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2010, 11:50 PM »
Nice bit of resto work there mate  :coolsmiley:
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xGoose

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2010, 12:46 AM »
Great job, Ive got a have a go at that soon, hope they turn out as good!



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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2010, 06:57 AM »
Nice work  ;)

It is important to make sure they are throughly clean before you start ,
 and with Alloy hubbed ones , I think a few people smear a bit of vaseline over the face of the hub to protect it  :)

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2010, 07:23 AM »
  I think a few people smear a bit of vaseline over the face of the hub to protect it  :)

I'm sure that's just for bleaching rims (nowt better than a bleached rim  >:D ) - the bleach corrodes the alloy so needs covering in some way but I don't think dye harms the alloy and grease/lube would just melt away as soon as the rims touched the hot water...

Is that RIT dye?  Someone on here dyed a set of Tuffs with Dylon and they came out navy blue.  :-\

Nice job BTW

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2010, 07:31 AM »
nice job!!  yeah did you use Rit?  they did my Z's really well  :daumenhoch:

crightonk

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2010, 02:21 PM »
I used 2 tubs of madonna blue dylon, was going to use 3 but as soon as the dye was in the water it went really dark so didnt put the 3rd tin in, I kept stirring the dye and turning the wheels over and changing them from top to bottom in the bucket every 15-20 mins or so over a period of 4 hours.

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2010, 02:47 PM »
asked this before so i'll ask it while the topic i current does the dye penetrate into the wheel? so you dont get brake rub showing, fancied some red tuffs for a rider and was going to do a new white set, those look bob on  :daumenhoch: doo like blue tuffs  :daumenhoch:

crightonk

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2010, 04:02 PM »
Not sure how deep it penetrates but as there were blue originally these will be fine for a rider, white ones will dye red no prob's but I think the rims will soon go pink/white with brake wear.

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Re: Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2010, 01:22 PM »
cool worth a bash then  :daumenhoch:  although i'm going to need about £10000000  for red tuff pads  :LolLolLolLol:

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